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by joe sz
Sat Jan 12, 2008 9:57 am
Forum: Pseudoscience & RSE
Topic: What the Bleep Movie - Is it Real Science?
Replies: 18
Views: 13998

The claims about the nature of reality as botched in What the Bleep have been debated by great minds in the past. The quantum world seems like a metaphysical one because of a human need to explain existence, not because it is so. Science makes no such claim. Only fools like ramtha do. Kant explored ...
by joe sz
Thu Jan 10, 2008 10:19 am
Forum: Pseudoscience & RSE
Topic: What the Bleep Movie - Is it Real Science?
Replies: 18
Views: 13998

Lost, you may have to get more specific and elaborate to get a response from a science-minded skeptic. But here's my reaction to: "Water crystals will rearrange themselves according to emotions projected at them, or words pasted on their containers. (some people's favourite)" There is no e...
by joe sz
Thu Jan 10, 2008 9:52 am
Forum: Leaving RSE: The Aftermath
Topic: Leaving friends behind.
Replies: 21
Views: 14504

Lost, good point, er question: "Wondering if RSE is so very different from other social settings." That is the point. Cults as closed systems work because the same social influence principles occur and work in more open systems. I believe [along with Robert J Lifton] that cult formation is...
by joe sz
Sun Jan 06, 2008 6:27 am
Forum: Is RSE a cult ? What is RSE? Its purpose? Post your opinion.
Topic: Is RSE A Cult? thread 1.
Replies: 128
Views: 77872

Don't hesitate, Lost. Tsk, tsk, Tyger :roll: Your response has value because it represents the common stereotype or gut reaction to "cult". I know you know better......you do, right, don't you, at least a little better, maybe? If symbols [white hoods or pentagrams] alone are what someone l...

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